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1900ss
In first decade of the 1900s fashionable women needed morning dresses, afternoon dresses, evening gowns, and simpler dresses that were less occasion-specific.
Women also wore suits, with shirtwaists (blouses), and had sporting clothes for their more active pursuits like skating, cycling, and tennis. -
1910
The French designer Jacques Doucet excelled in superimposing pastel colors and his elaborate gossamery dresses suggested the Impressionist shimmers of reflected light. His distinguished customers never lost a taste for his fluid lines and flimsy, diaphanous materials. While obeying imperatives that left little to the imagination of the couturier, Doucet was nonetheless a designer of immense taste and discrimination, a role many have tried since, but rarely with Doucet's level of success. -
1920
The 1920s was the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first liberated themselves from constricting fashions and began to wear comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or pants). Men likewise abandoned overly formal clothes and began to wear sport clothes for the first time. The suits which men still wear today are still based, for the most part, on those which were worn by men in the late 1920s. The 1920s were characterized by two distinct periods of -
1930
In the 1930s there was a return to a more genteel, ladylike appearance. Budding rounded busts and waistline curves were seen and hair became softer and prettier as hair perms improved. Foreheads which had been hidden by cloche hats were revealed and adorned with small plate shaped hats. -
1940
The 1940's brought a new silhouette in women's fashion. Jackets and shirts came with shoulder pads in them. This gave a broad shouldered look. Women made an effort to make their waist thin. Synthetic fabrics became popular due to war shortages. Nylon was used more frequently than ever before -
1950
The theme of glamour continued through a brief look at 1950's fashion accessories such as the importance of hats and berets, the brooch corsage, gloves and bags, flat and stiletto shoes, a spiked umbrella and make up -
1960
Until the 1960s Paris was considered to be the center of fashion throughout the world. However, in between 1960 and 1969 a radical shake-up occurred in the fundamental structure of fashion. From the 1960s onward there would never be just one single, prevailing trend or fashion but a great plethora of possibilities, indivisibly linked to all the various influences in other areas of people's lives -
1970
The decade began with a continuation of the hippie look of the late 1960s. Jeans remained frayed, tie dye was still popular, and the fashion for unisex mushroomed. The 1970s were literally the "anything goes" decade. For some, the uglier and clunkier the fashion, the better. For others, soft and feminine was the answer. No matter what style, making a fashion statement reached its apex in the 1970s. -
1980
During the late twentieth century, fashions began to criss-cross international boundaries with rapidity. Popular Western styles were adopted all over the world, and many designers from outside of the West had a profound impact on fashion -
1990
The fashion in the 1990s was the genesis of a sweeping shift in the western world: the beginning of the adoption of tattoos,[1] body piercings aside from ear piercing [2] and to a lesser extent, other forms of body modification such as branding. This started the indifferent, anti-conformist approach to fashion which was popular throughout the 1990s, leading to the popularisation of the casual chic look, including T-shirts, jeans, hoodies, and trainers, a trend which continued into the 2000s. -
2000
Although the 2000s did not have one particular style, they revived clothes primarily from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Globalization also influenced the decade's clothing trends, with the incorporation of Middle Eastern and Asian dress into mainstream European, American and Australasian fashion.[ -
2010
The 2010s (2010–present) have thus far been defined by slim-fitted clothing, a revival of austerity era period pieces, 1980s neon colors, and from late 2012 onwards, unisex early 1990s styles influenced by grunge[1][2] and skater fashions.[3][4] In the early 2010s, many late 2000s fashions remained popular in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Australia and East Asia, especially the indie pop look which largely drew upon elements of 1970s garage rock and contemporary alternative fashion.
